There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

-Beecham, SirThomas
Quoted in Harold  Atkins and  Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

Old Mother Wit, and Nature gave Shakespeare and Fletcher all they have; In Spenser, and in Jonson, Art Of slower Nature got the start.

-Denham, SirJohn
  'On Mr  Abraham Cowley'.

What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.5.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  In The Guardian, 5 Oct.

I think that we had better start again, somewhere else.

-Major,John
  Attributed remark during a Cabinet meeting when the Cabinet Room was rocked by an IR A mortar attack on No.10 Downing Street,7 Feb.

I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

-Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald)
  'Trans Canada'.

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective meansö Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

-Williams,William Carlos
  Paterson, bk.1, preface.